The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The big military story for the United States concerns the ongoing recruitment crisis. Not enough young people are joining up, so the armed services are revamping their marketing approaches. One company helping in that effort is called the Refuel Agency. To find out more about this effort, Federal Drive Host talked with Refuel's Senior Vice President for the Military Market, Liz Carmo.

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With cyber attacks on the rise against healthcare organizations, Congress is starting to notice. Serious attacks have tripled since 2018, in some cases interrupting service and extracting ransom payments. Bipartisan legislation would give the Health and Human Service Department a specific task in helping prevent these attacks. For details, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.).

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The latest Best Places to Work results from the Partnership for Public Service are pretty promising — employee engagement is ticking upward for the first time in years, with many familiar agencies still topping the rankings.

But there are other pockets of success at agencies that don’t always see the spotlight. During a Best Places to Work event celebrating many of this year’s winners, some federal leaders were looking for what’s driving consistency at agencies, and how to make sure that keeps going

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Next month, Microsoft president Brad Smith will appear before the House Homeland Security Committee. He'll answer questions about the company's recent nation-state cyberattacks and new internal security strategy. This is after a Homeland Security report highlighting some of the flaws. Could licensing practices be a cause? That's the feeling of groups like the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing. For why, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke to the group's executive director, Ryan Triplette.

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The Veterans Affairs office of inspector general has revealed a fundamental way to improve care. It has to do with how medical staff assess patients about to be discharged. The OIG has recommended a national policy to use social determinants of health, and health-related social needs, when evaluating patients. Here with why this is so important, deputy assistant IG Julie Kroviak.

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National Safety Month is nearly here, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is reminding workplaces across the country to stay vigilant about risks, whether bombings to insider cyber threats. CISA is also developing new physical security goals for critical infrastructure organizations. To learn more, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday, spoke with CISA’s executive assistant director for infrastructure security, David Mussington. 

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